Christoph Holpzafel, villas manager at Anantara Al Sahel Villa Resort, said: "For those South Africans living in the UAE, the resort feels like home away from home, with each private thatched-villa designed to integrate seamlessly with the surroundings, and each with views over the Savannah.

If we are going to break out of this cycle of chronic crises across the Sahel region, emergency assistance to vulnerable farmers and pastoralists has to be considered a top priority," said Robert Piper, the U.

This fully integrated project will address resilience at its core and build the foundation for sustainable and scalable economic growth for the people of the Sahel," says Mike Beall, president and CEO of NCBA CLUSA.

There was also the handling of the Malian crisis and subsequently that of the situation in the Sahel south of the Sahara, which provoked the surfacing of contradictions that were added to the increasing political disputes.

The delegations discussed ways of implementing the "Tripoli Master plan" which aims at reinvigorating regional cooperation in North Africa and the Sahel region, beefing up security and combating terror and organized crime, including drug and weapons smuggling and illegal migration.

International organisations, European Union and the World Bank, have promised aid of at least USD8bn to Sahel region countries, which are struggling because of on-going conflicts and are among the poorest in Africa.

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